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The annual Liebknecht-Luxemburg memorial march in Berlin took place on January 12, 2025, to honor the communist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, who were assassinated on January 15, 1919. The event, which began in 1926, saw thousands of participants, including members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE).
Unfortunately, the march saw violent repression by police, leading to over 31 arrests and 34 criminal charges. Police used tear gas and batons to disperse the crowd.
The demonstration ended at the Monument to the Dead of the Communist and Labour Movement, where the two founders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), Liebknecht and Luxemburg, and other personalities of the German communist and labour movement are buried. The KKE reports that a delegation of the Communist Party of Greece and the Communist Party of Turkey laid a joint wreath of the two parties in memory of the two communist leaders at the monument, which was erected in 1951 in East Berlin during the period of the German Democratic Republic.
The KKE reports further that the march "was attended by members and friends of the KKE and KNE, who shouted slogans such as “Our future is not capitalism, it is the new world, socialism”, “A century of struggle and sacrifice, the KKE in the vanguard”, as well as slogans for the joint struggle and the internationalist solidarity of the peoples.
The banner of the Party, inspired by the epilogue to Luxemburg’s article of 14 January 1919, the day before her assassination, read in German and Greek: “The revolution will rise up again and it will proclaim: I WAS, I AM AND I SHALL BE!”."
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